March 13, 2017

Seminars and Colloquium

This year’s E. Paul Catts Memorial Lecture events will take place on April 20 & 21. The guest speaker is Mark Brown, Professor, Univ. of Georgia. Dr. Brown received his Masters of Science in Entomology degree at WSU in 1981. The scheduled events are:

Grants

Betsy Beers received grants totaling $49,134 from Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission for research on 1) Insecticide Resistance of SWD in Sweet Cherry and 2) Spotted wing drosophila management in stone fruit. Betsy also received funding from Nichino America in the amount of $18,000 for research support concerning Insect Control on Tree Fruit. (3/6/2017)

CAHNRS Announcements

The CAHNRS Honors Awards Celebration will be on Thursday, March 23, 2017, at the Schweitzer Event Center (at 1825 Schweitzer Dr). The reception and Silent Auction begins at 5:00 PM with the dinner and program at 6:00 PM. This event honors the students and supporters of CAHNRS. Register online by March 20th. If you have questions contact Alanna Ellis at acellis@wsu.edu<mailto:acellis@wsu.edu. For more info go to:

University Announcements

The WSU Celebrating Excellence event will be on Friday, March 31, 2017. The social hour begins at 5:30 PM, followed by the banquet at 6:30 PM. The reservation deadline to attend the Celebrating Excellence Recognition Banquet is this Friday, March 17th. Celebrating Excellence honors the outstanding achievements of WSU faculty and staff. The newest recipients of:

the presenter of the Distinguished Faculty Address are honored at this banquet.

This year’s newly tenured and promoted faculty, and new patent awardees are also honored during this special evening. Price is $45/person. Please plan to attend and support your colleagues. Reservations can be made online at https://showcase.wsu.edu/celebrating-excellence-banquet/ through Friday, March 17. Please contact University Events at 509-335-4737 or wsuevent@wsu.edu with any questions.

It was announced this week that Doug Walsh is this year’s recipient Sahlin Faculty Excellence for Outreach and Engagement. As the statewide director of integrated pest management for WSU Extension, he researches sustainable protection for crops and their insect pollinators. His work over the past 15 years has reduced farmers’ use of certain pesticides by 100,000 pounds per year in the Pacific Northwest. Crops and industries that have benefited include wine grapes, hybrid poplars, vegetables, dry beans and alfalfa for livestock. Walsh has received national and state awards for integrated pest management and extension service. He averages two extension presentations per month to stakeholders such as the Washington Mint Association, Hope Research Council, Pacific Northwest Vegetable Growers Association and more. Learn more about him at http://entomology.wsu.edu/blog/2011/06/20/walsh/. Doug will one of the honoree’s at the Celebrating Excellence event.

Meetings – Regional, National, International

Join your fellow entomologist at the PB-ESA Fun Run on Sunday April 2nd starting at 10:00 AM, at the Peace Memorial Park in Portland, OR.

For Extension People: Great opportunity to learn about Extension and applied research projects in urban and metropolitan areas in the US (many presentations by WSU). It is very likely that WSU will be hosting the 2019 National Urban Extension conference in Seattle (decision to be announced at the May conference). The National Urban Extension Conference is less than three months away! Have you registered? Early bird pricing is available through March 17th. If you have not yet registered, you can do so here: z.umn.edu/urbanext2017. Keep the momentum going and join the Facebook group to learn more about what we’re planning! We’re looking forward to seeing you in May! Brad Gaolach Ph. D., Conference Co-Chair, Director, WSU Metropolitan Center for Applied Research & Extension & Director, Western Center for Metropolitan Extension & Research. Associate Professor; Community & Economic Development, Washington State University Extension, WSU North Puget Sound at Everett, 2000 Tower Street – MS 45, Everett, WA 98201-1390 (MAP) (o): 425.405.1734 (f): 425.405.1601 gaolach@wsu.edu